Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Team leader: Gender

Alessandra Galiè is the Team Leader: Gender at ILRI. She conducts research on gender in livestock value chains with a focus on gender analysis in genetics, empowerment and nutrition and food security. Before joining ILRI she worked at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on gendered empowerment, seed governance and participatory plant breeding. She also worked in the NGO sector. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University and an MA in social anthropology of development from the University of London.

International Livestock Research Institute

Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Countries I work in

My CRPs

Research Programs

My online presence

My Projects

Women in business: chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Gender at scale (Exploring ‘feminization’ of agriculture through gender dynamics across scales in East Africa)

Empowering women through livestock

My publications

Introduction to special issue: Gender and rural development: Sustainable livelihoods in a neoliberal context

Women’s and men’s perceptions of gendered responsibilities in relation to maternal and child nutrition in Rwanda

Women Empowerment in Livestock Business (WELBI): A preliminary baseline survey report on the empowerment of women agripreneurs in dairy and poultry value chains in Tanzania and Ethiopia

Gender norms and women’s engagement in dairy-related businesses in Tanzania: The case of Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions

Engaging men in supporting maternal and child consumption of milk and other animal source foods in Rwanda

Women’s Empowerment in Livestock tools

Institutional and theoretical learning on gender analysis through the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from Peste des Petits Ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana

What can we learn from the literature about livestock interventions and women's empowerment?

An exploration of gender norms and women’s empowerment: The case of pig-related businesses in Masaka, Mukono and Mpigi Districts in Uganda

Livestock innovations, social norms, and women’s empowerment in the Global South

Gender dynamics around introduction of improved forages in Kenya and Ethiopia